So why get an ego about it?

You clearly won this argument. I acquiesce to your superior brainpower.

Their product uses Blizzard’s code and manipulates it. The basis for their product is Blizzard’s IP, which they have not licensed to Bossland.

The discussion of what something says and how they say it are, indeed, two different discussions. Which was what was hammered out. The author wrote a post about what these games were saying, but whose arguments focused almost entirely on how they were saying it. I’d say that distinction is important.

Bossland is piggybacking a product that harms other users of Blizzard’s product, to make a profit, thereby damaging Blizzard’s IP. All of the data is Blizzard’s. They own it because they built the code, they own the servers, etc. If anyone else is making money directly from the code, it’s infringement.

The two of them only got to this point by having a discussion about it. You’re being glib about the journey while sitting from the vantage of the destination.

It’s also important to take into account the zeitgeist of these games: in an election year that saw a deification of Ayn Rand, it’s important that the game spoke to the notion of Objectivism as absurd because so much media had focused on it as a Serious Subject worthy of discourse at the highest levels, but what it…

How does one become this much of a shithead? I’m genuinely curious.

That “whoosh” sound was the point going way over your head.

It’s a company making money off Blizzard’s IP. That’s a clear violation of the law. Beyond that, it’s harming Blizzard by discouraging players from buying Overwatch. What if Bungie hired hackers to make Overwatch nearly unplayable, based on the belief that those players would flock to Destiny, instead? That’s pretty…

From a legal standpoint, if they can prove harm to their IP through this means, then there’s clear precedent set by the courts and any company that does this after the resolution of this case will be subject to basically automatic judgments against them, unless they can prove that what they’re doing is somehow…

It’s about ethics in games journalism.

Destiny is pretty much the only game I play and I’m unfamiliar with how players can cheat/hack, beyond lag-switching. Also, I’m not super tech savvy, but is there a way to really screw with the game like that?

Joe Lacob is a pool of fetid pig feces (TM pending), but everyone got over their nausea when LeBron went to Miami to form a dynasty and we all got over it when Boston added Garnett for formed their own Big-Three. Phil Jackson is a shithead, but nobody got on him when he had two future HoF players (Shaq, Kobe) and the…

My favorite thing about this thread is that it was added two years after the original post. And my favorite thing about my comment is that it’s a full year after this thread was created.

Man, when I read that first letter, I cringed so fucking hard. And then, you did a masterful job of unraveling all the garbage in that letter. I think your response perfectly walked the line between chastising “Drowning” (lord...that monicker) and explaining why he’s wrong. Kudos, I would have lost my shit.

I think, from a meta perspective (mind you, I’ve never played Overwatch and have no clue about its canon), the character is intentionally presented as two extremes of Russian culture (pro-patriotism and anti-LGBT) as a means of destabilizing the belief structure of what it means to be gay in Russia. The government and…

P Money? Yikes.

Forgive my ignorance, who is that white goober up there on the header? And is he really 1st round material?

It’s a mental exercise, not a practical comparison, so we’re meant to suspend disbelief to a degree. That being said, the only way your comparison could have been less reasonable would be to compare his free-throw shooting to playing goalie.